A farm in the Reims region, France.

"What the hell is this?" Liu Xingyu looked at the latest issue of the Chinese edition of the Paris Daily in surprise.

"Damn, this Frenchman is really poor and crazy, isn't this aimed at us?" said a young man next to him indignantly.

"No, marrying a French daughter-in-law has to pay 3,000 francs to their government, which is almost 1,160 yuan, which is simply unreasonable......

"This is simply bullying, should we still think that our Celestial Empire is the waste wood of the former Qing Dynasty? Let's go to the consulate to find Consul Zhang's reaction and ......."

The surrounding Chinese are all indignant. Their identities are all foreign aid farmers, to be precise, "French aid farmers". Of course, these noisy people also have one thing in common, that is, they all have French wives or French girlfriends.

Because France lost almost an entire generation of young people in World War I, the most direct consequence was that there was a serious shortage of personnel engaged in production, especially agricultural production. If you don't have enough people from your own country, you can invite them from abroad, and the French government can think of it. But this person is not so easy to invite.

Those unskilled jobs are easy to do, and they can be done by the colony's black corn millet, but they can't do such technical work as industrial and agricultural production. Don't think that agricultural production is simple, it is also a technical job, otherwise black Africa would not be guarding the fertile land but there is famine every year. The Black Corn really can't do this kind of thing.

Of course, it would be best if it could import labor from Europe, but which of the major European countries would not have suffered heavy losses? Now if it wants to import labor from other people, the government is not a fool, where will it be willing? Those small fart countries that did not participate in the war can do it, but those countries do not have many people, and France needs not hundreds of thousands of laborers, but hundreds of thousands, and these countries cannot provide them at all.

Now the only countries in the world that can provide a large number of high-quality labor are China, the United States and Japan, but the United States and Japan are busy developing their own territory, and there are no interested and unnecessary people to make this money. Although China also has a lot of new territories to develop, there are more than 600 million people in China at this time, and now a new generation of young people has grown up, and there is no problem in drawing hundreds of thousands of people out.

On top of that, many of China's agricultural areas are now mechanized or semi-mechanized, and there are also a large number of new animal power animals such as "power sheep" in mountainous and hilly areas that are not suitable for mechanization, and the demand for population has also decreased a lot.

The price offered by France to these foreign-aided farmers is still good, with a basic salary of 1,200 francs per year, plus a three-part bonus of the harvest price, and the contract is for three years. In addition, in order to attract young Chinese farmers to work in the past, the French also shamelessly used the "****" method, and the publicity materials they prepared basically had a photo of a young and beautiful French girl. And it's also very undisciplined.,If you give a little bit of effort.,These girls can marry home.。

The pictures of the beauties scratching their heads made the Chinese young single dogs turn their eyes green, and then looked at the hints of the French Yankees' red fruits, and immediately became brains, they shouted "Go to Europe, go to France, farm to make money and earn daughters-in-law!", "Wear flowers, wear big red flowers, ride horses, ride horses!" and so on, and so on, and so on, and went to sign up. The number of applicants exceeded even the expectations of the Chinese and French governments.

Mr. Wen said angrily and funny: "How are these guys......

With the enthusiastic registration of everyone, 500,000 "French aid farmers" were soon gathered, and in addition to the basic French language and French customs that had been made up for three months, they were sent to farms all over France.

With the addition of these 500,000 Chinese new forces, the dilemma of insufficient labor in France was immediately greatly improved. As mentioned earlier, these peasants are basically a new generation of peasants who grew up after the founding of the People's Republic of China, at least they have received junior high school education and vocational training at the grassroots level, and their quality is quite high, even surpassing the original French peasants (of course, there is no comparison with later generations). You must know that in recent years, the literacy rate of the Celestial Empire has exceeded 90%, and these young people are close to 100%.

The literacy rate in France at this time is only 90%, and this is the data on the books, because the standards for the literacy rate of the two countries at this time are different, China's current literacy standard is required to "be able to know 2,000 commonly used words, be able to read newspapers, be able to write simple letters, and be able to perform four arithmetic". The standards in Europe and the United States are much lower, and basically as long as they can write their own names and recognize one or two hundred words, they are considered "literate." What is one or two hundred words enough in the alphabetic language? However, according to these simple standards, among the recruits recruited in France in 1913, there were 68 illiterate recruits for every 1,000 recruits, and of course France was not the worst, with Italy having 330 illiterates for every 1,000 recruits and Austria-Hungary having 220. Germany, which has the highest quality, has only 1 illiterate per 1,000 recruits. As for Russia, can we not mention the literacy rate?

Such a highly qualified workforce is naturally very popular, and they are all skilled in professional skills, not only can they farm, most of them can operate agricultural machinery, and half of them can drive tractors. Coupled with the fact that the Chinese have always been able to endure hardships and are one of the most industrious peoples, after the introduction of Chinese farmers and supporting agricultural machinery, fertilizers and pesticides, French agriculture achieved a bumper harvest in 1921, and the output exceeded that before the war. The problem of their shortage of agricultural producers was solved at once.

In the beginning, the French government was quite proud of its plan to bring in labor, and felt that it was so clever that it could come up with such a clever solution. But by last year, they began to regret it......

It's not that the Chinese peasants are not doing well, it is precisely because they are doing so well that the French government has a headache. Because France has almost died a generation of men, the whole of France presents a serious phenomenon of "lack of men", and the most terrible thing is that the lack of men is precisely young adults of marriageable age. In other words, a large number of young French girls have no husbands......

It was at this time that this group of Chinese elites came, and they were still very high-quality young and strong, so what happened after that was completely conceivable. You must know that this generation of Chinese young people who have grown up are not short of nutrition, and the "nutritious meal plan" that has been implemented at a huge cost has begun to bear fruit in recent years. This generation of Chinese has developed one by one, and under the compulsory "nine-year compulsory education system", they have a high cultural quality. Whether it is cultural quality, physical quality, or moral quality, it is among the best in today's world.

Under the premise of the lack of domestic youth, so many outstanding Chinese young people have naturally become the partners of French girls, so in the past two years, more than 300,000 French girls have been hooked by them, and more than 100,000 have officially married.

At first, the French government was happy to see this phenomenon come to fruition, but then they saw more and more French girls marrying outside, and they finally panicked. The French population is already very insufficient, and if there are a lot of girls running around, it will be terrible.

Nima, we say that we have a lot of cute girls here, and they are all advertisements! Do you understand advertisements? Why do you take them seriously? The French have now regretted it, and they fully embody what it means to "lure the wolf into the house". That's right, now the agricultural labor crisis is solved, but it has lost a lot of girls, this business is not cost-effective, it is really a loss!

If it was China before, then they could have taken coercive measures to order these couples to divorce, or forbade Chinese to associate with French girls, or force married Chinese to stay, and so on. This kind of thing is not uncommon, in the history of the original time and space, they have played, during the First World War, many of the laborers sent by the Beiyang government to Europe found French girls, but it was rare to really bring them back to China. In addition to the difficult conditions in China at that time, the girls couldn't look down on it, and the obstruction of the French government was also a very important reason. Not to mention the fact that Chinese husbands in the era of Nazi Germany were forced to divorce their German wives.

But China on this plane is different, this is an open country. China is now the fastest growing country in the world, although the per capita income is not as good as Europe, but because of low prices, as well as various welfare, the actual living standards of the people are not worse than Europe, and even in some aspects, such as medical care, education, etc., it is still much surpassed, and the most important thing is that China is now recognized as the country with the best public security in the world. Of course, these positive images are also related to the cultural output that China has invested heavily in in recent years, and various film and television works, literary works, animations, etc., are imperceptibly establishing a positive image of China.

Moreover, these positive images are guaranteed by the country's hard power, a first-class navy composed of 1 million tons of super dreadnoughts and 500,000 tons of aircraft carriers, a 4 million modern army (disarmed after the war) that has not tasted defeat since becoming an army, the world's first air force, and the international status of one of the eight permanent members of the League of Nations, which is enough to become the "mainstay of world peace."

In addition to the selling point of "mysterious oriental civilization", China is now very attractive to people around the world, and even because of the international environment, its image in the world even exceeds that of the original time and space.

The most important thing is that in the face of such a powerful oriental dragon, the French will not dare to play any coercive measures against those Chinese who have soaked in French girls. But if it continues like this, the French can't stand it, if they just lose hundreds of thousands of girls, the French will pinch their noses. But Nima, this is the loss of hundreds of thousands of young girls, and France, which is already underpopulated, really can't stand it. Not to mention the pressure of public opinion from the people, seeing so many Chinese girls abducted by the Chinese, the French people are also on fire.

So the French government, which was under great pressure, had no choice but to consult with the Chinese government: Brother, let your young men stop in moderation, such as the German "dragoons" next door! Please let them receive magical powers! Our sisters are not enough!

At that time, it was Vice Foreign Minister Lu Zhengxiang who came forward to take charge of this matter, and Vice Minister Lu asked: "Did we young men use coercion or other illegal means?"

The French ambassador could only honestly say: "No, the young men of your country are very good young people." ”

"So, is the woman of their own free will?"

"Uh, yes......" The French ambassador didn't want to admit it, but this kind of thing can't be hidden, and it's not a minority.

"So is the law in your country prohibiting women from marrying outside?"

"There is no ...... at the moment" the French ambassador has run out of words.

"Since our young man did not use illegal means, the woman is voluntary, and the law of your country does not prohibit foreign marriage, what can be the problem with such a thing?" Vice Minister Lu showed a harmless smile: "We are all civilized countries, and the freedom of marriage is one of the basic human rights, as long as we do not violate the law, we have no right to restrict citizens' marriage partners and love partners." If I remember correctly, your society has always advocated respect for love choices. ”

As he spoke, Vice Minister Lu also took out the advertising materials distributed by France at that time, and looked at the sensational hint text on it, or the explicit text, and almost shouted, "Come on, come on, there will be beautiful women upside down!" The French ambassador, even though he has the "natural cheekiness" of a diplomat, is also a little red-faced.

The French ambassador, whose face was swollen like steamed buns, had no choice but to walk away. In fact, they themselves know that this thing is easy to say or not, it is not easy to say, we are short of men, and this person is still found by them, which can only be described as self-inflicted.

Seeing that the French government had become a rat in the bellows, the Germans and Britishmen next door gloated for a while, and their media ridiculed the Gallic chicken: Hahahaha, who told you to start seducing people with girls, and now you are stupid.

In fact, it is not only France that has introduced Chinese labor, but also the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Ukraine and other countries, but the number of people they have introduced is relatively small. If they didn't have France, they would feel very uncomfortable, but happiness is all comparative.

At this time, the French government can be said to be difficult to ride a tiger, and has the intention to introduce a law prohibiting girls from marrying outside, but is worried that it will become a laughing stock all over the world. If nothing is done, public opinion will erupt. As the saying goes, people are forced out, so as soon as the French government opened its brain, it came up with a strange method of "dowry tax".

"You see, we are also a civilized country, and we are free to marry, but we have to pay taxes. If you don't pay taxes, you can't marry outside...... although this method is still very humiliating, but it is better than prohibiting a sister from marrying outside the law .

The French came up with such a strange method, and of course China didn't do it. China immediately lodged a solemn protest with France, and accused the French government at the League of Nations Congress of interfering in human rights as a step backwards in civilization...... Yunyun. So the two countries began to fight a big lawsuit......

"Please rest assured, citizens will definitely explain this matter, we Chinese are not so easy to bully!" Consul Zhang of the Consulate in Reims assured the "farmers who came to petition".

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